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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

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My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
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Combination Death Failure Kindness Life People Process
What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.
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Awareness Forget Life Passion Produce Sensual
Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.
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Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.
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The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.
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When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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Be Yourself Believe Inspirational Tolerance World
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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Body Music Separate Togetherness
One handles truths like dynamite.
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Handle Inspirational One Liner Truth
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
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Build Creation Expectation Herself Man Want World Wrong
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ”idea of them.
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
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And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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Anything I can not transform into something marvelous, I let go.

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